Wies Church
There are some neat Belgian pulpit photos at sententiae et clamores which made me interested enough to look up other pulpit photos. I came upon one of the most rococo churches in the world .... Wies Church. Here's a little about it from Wikipedia ....
The pilgrimage church of Wies (German: Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann, who spent the last eleven years of his life in a nearby dwelling. It is located in the foothills of the Alps, the Steingaden municipality of the Weilheim-Schongau district, Bavaria, Germany. In 1738 tears were seen on a dilapidated wooden figure of the Scourged Saviour. This miracle resulted in a pilgrimage rush to see the sculpture. In 1740 a small chapel was built to house the statue, but it was soon realized that the building would be too small for the number of pilgrims it attracted, and thus Steingaden Abbey decided to commission a separate shrine. Many people who have prayed in front of the statue of Jesus on the altar have claimed that people have been miraculously cured of their diseases, which has made this church even more of a pilgrimage site .... The Wieskirche was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983 and underwent massive restoration in 1985-91.
Here are some pics ....
- the back of the church and the organ
- the Scourged Saviour
- front of the church, pulpit on the left
It's mesmerizing in an exploded wedding cake kind of way :)
posted by crystal | 5:46 PM
4 Comments:
>>It's mesmerizing in an exploded wedding cake kind of way:)<<
You can say that again!
They certainly were attracted to God their Scourged Saviour to have built such beautiful churches.
Some days, I think that "IT" should be so easy for U>S to understand this in the twenty-first century but yet "IT" seems so hard on other days. Go Figure! :)
Rococo = Baroque on steroids. A bit much, but still beautiful.
Hi Victor :)
Rococo = Baroque on steroids
Heh. It must be interesting to have that as one's regular church.
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